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A group of researchers at MIT has created a new material that expands and contracts when exposed to different temperatures. Read more View the full article

Awarding the Stirling Prize to Foster + Partners for its Bloomberg building sends the wrong message and risks runaway global warming. We need a new approach to sustainability says Phineas Harper. Read more View the full article

The architecture college at Washington University in St Louis has announced it plans to prohibit students from using styrene in their models, citing health risks related to the chemical that is used to make foam boards. (more…) View the full article

Slideshow feature: the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics takes place tonight with a set designed by Es Devlin. Here’s a slideshow of images from some of her previous projects, including arena tours for Kanye West and Jay Z (above) and Take That last year. (more…) View the full article

The Conran Shop has filled two floors of a former car park with design-focused furnishings and objects for the home in Gangnam, Seoul, which is its 12th branch. Read more View the full article

Lithuanian design and architecture studio YCL has used furniture to add pops of colour to the interiors of an otherwise monochromatic apartment in Strasbourg, France (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Portuguese architect, curator and co-founder of The Decorators Mariana Pestana has been revealed as the curator of the Istanbul Design Biennial in 2020. Read more

Dezeen and MINI World Tour: Amsterdam designer Pieke Bergmans explains that she used a process similar to glass blowing to create the plastic lighting she exhibited during Dutch Design Week 2013 in Eindhoven. (more...) View the full article

British designer Tom Dixon has opened a permanent home in New York's Soho neighbourhood, after experimenting with a number of temporary locations. Read more View the full article

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed all the furniture for the remodelled Faculty of Humanities at Københavns Universitet in Copenhagen, which is due to reopen in January. (more…) View the full article

A science-fiction staple has inched closer to reality with the reveal of a prototype in-ear wearable that translates languages almost instantly. Read more View the full article

One of Germany's legislative bodies has resolved to prohibit the use of petrol- and diesel-powered cars as of 2030, marking a potentially major step in the move towards electric vehicles. (more…) View the full article

Dezeen promotion: A multicoloured pavilion with a wave-like ceramic facade is one of three projects that manufacturer Agrob Buchtal has named as winners of the Tile Award. Read more View the full article

São Paulo firm Andrade Morettin Arquitetos has encased exhibition spaces at this cultural centre in the city in a huge red wooden box, which can be glimpsed through the building's translucent glass walls. Read more View the full article

West Coast-based R&A Architecture + Design has fused two buildings on the national historic register in downtown Portland, Oregon, to create a new "house of welcome" for the city. Read more

Lisbon studio Aires Mateus used only reclaimed timber to construct this pair of waterfront cabins in Grândola, Portugal (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A translucent plastic house in the woods is the location for a fantasy movie directed by architect Spanish architect Miguel de Guzmán that features a wolf, three bears and Little Red Riding Hood. (more...) View the full article

As the UK goes to the polls to decide whether it should stay a member of the European Union, we've rounded up all of our stories looking at how the outcome will affect the architecture and design industries. See Dezeen's coverage of the EU referendum » View the full article

Architecture firm Arcgency has turned an industrial coal crane in a Copenhagen harbour into a luxury two-person retreat. Read more View the full article

In our latest competition, we've teamed up with Kip Hideaways to give readers the chance to win a two-night stay for four people at the Kingsbridge Hideaway in Devon, as well as a year's membership to Kip. Read more View the full article

Dutch firm Wiel Arets Architects has completed an academic campus in Rotterdam's Hoogvliet district comprising six concrete and glass buildings with subtle surface patterns designed to resemble ivy (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

A zigzagging zinc facade and a bright blue kitchen are part of an extension to a house in London's Albion Terrace, designed by architecture studio Outpost. Read more

Visitors could suspend themselves within a 3D grid of ropes inside this inflatable installation created by Croatian-Austrian design collective Numen/For Use (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

London Design Festival 2013: London studio Industrial Facility has created a range of stacking containers to store desktop items for American office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. (more...) View the full article

Edinburgh College of Art student Peter Trimble has built a portable machine for manufacturing furniture from sand, urine and bacteria (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article